Re: Where do we stand with the Xen patches?

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>]

On Sun, 17 May 2009 12:25:38 -0700 (PDT)
david@lang.hm wrote:

> On Sun, 17 May 2009, devzero@web.de wrote:
> > maybe this is iust a stupid comment (please forgive, i?m no
> > advanced kernel hacker), but can?t the code inserted by the patches
> > and which changes the fastpath just #IFDEF`ed at the critical
> > offsets ?  (as building a dom0 kernel is just another build target,
> > isn`t it ?)
> 
> no, if dom0 is going to be widely deployed, it will be because the
> distros turn on dom0 support by default. as a result any penalties
> due to xen support will be felt by all users of those distros (even
> if they don't use xen)
> 

at minimum we need to split CONFIG_PARAVIRT up into 
"want to be nice to hypervisors" and "I want to be Xen Dom0";
they look to largely not overlap.... so lets not make the costs overlap
either.


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